Two more things. Have one team whose sole purpose is to proliferate FBSD support to as many known peripherals and devices as possible, so that it's as easy to proliferate PC-BSD on as many laptops as possible, w/o worrying about whether it supports all the hardware or not.

Other - have something like Wine for PC-BSD to run XP and Windows 7 programs. Not so well that nobody wants to develop stuff for PC-BSD, but well enough so that the last essential programs that may not have a unix equivalent can be run

Fully second this!!! Have a DHCP6 manager that assigns static and dynamic address pools, and allow for the interface ID addresses to be grouped in any way that's convenient. Such a utility would be particularly great in router/firewall gear such as m0n0wall and pFsense, if not in FBSD itself. It should have direct hooks to the relevant/etc/ files so that one doesn't have to whip up an editor and manually edit such stuff.

Other suggestions - all IPv6 related. One - have an utility that allows virtual w

I want a program that would maintain a backup of the hard drive on a network drive every time the computer is shut off. I want an installation disk that would look for a backup on the network drive and install that backup instead of a new installation.

It's definitely stable (running 9.1-RELEASE here in a few places) but not in the installer until later.Setting up a ZFS / install now isn't too difficult but does require using a livecd.There is a great thread covering it from many angles here, including HD encryption.

I would like to see improved Java support. What we have now is all either hacks based on running the Linux JVM as a compatible ABI, or you have to build a JVM from source due to licensing. I would like to see a commercial JVM run natively. Ideally IBM's.

DragonflyBSD is a good solid project, but could you name the aspects in which it is superior to FreeBSD? DragonflyBSD has hammerfs; FreeBSD has ZFS. That's a draw at best. There are some relatively minor improved features which would be nice to port back maybe.

Uh, the completely non-locking allocators, scheduler paths, and so on? DragonflyBSD's internals are what separated it from FreeBSD: the original maintainer had some big ideas on how to rewrite the schedulers (process, thread, I/O) and allocators to be a lot faster, lighter, more efficient, and scalable; he got banned from FreeBSD.

HP Moonshot is going to bring 2000+ core servers to the data center one of these years (it's quiet, but there's real progress happening in there and lots of partners in the da

FreeBSD supports far more hardware platforms than most or any linux distros. I have never had any problem whatsoever with FreeBSD on any PC hardware I tried. What specific hardware have you had a problem with? How long ago was it?

FreeBSD already has a virtual edition called VirtualBDS. On top of that, it also supports jails of Linux (Debian & Gentoo) and BSD itself. Only thing it'd need might be VMware for Windows support, but other than that, I'd say it's there.

FBSD may not need Wayland, since it's possible that a lot of their users do use X for remote accessing. But for PC-BSD, Wayland should be ported, and KDE 5 and other DEs that support Wayland should be supported on it.

Which brings to mind another point - FBSD needs a team that do just one thing - ensure that every peripheral that sells today has supported drivers, be it open source or not. The goal should be making (F)BSD as automatic an install as Windows usually is. Once that's there, w/ complete plug

Foundations for Wayland, KVM, KMS, systemd, Dalvik. Many of these things should just be a compile away with the right few pieces in place. Don't get left behind & don't let Linux's advancements be an island

I'm a busy software developer working for a big company, so I don't have much time to contribute for Open Source and open knowledge projects. Supporting the FreeBSD Foundation, Wikimedia and similar initiatives seems to be a good way to pay for their valuable work. I make a donation every year and invite all/. readers to do the same.

* Fix USB device enumeration, you know, like you said you would in 8.1* Either remove or update storage controller drivers which are no longer maintained and have been* replace sysinstall outright with something which is more likely to work consistently* fix the release cycle to have something between "cutting edge requiring a regular rebuild of the system" and "stale binaries released when the release goes STABLE, and more often than not made unavailable completely as soon as they